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Revenu minimum garanti pour tous – Le rêve un peu fou de certains Suisses
En Europe, la Finlande sera en 2017, le premier État membre de l’UE à instaurer un revenu minimum universel. Aux Pays-Bas, la ville d’Utrecht expérimente également cette nouvelle approche qui a également ses thuriféraires en Suisse. Les défenseurs de ce qu’on appelle chez nos voisins le revenu de base inconditionnel ont d’ailleurs obtenu une petite … Continue reading
Technology and Jobs – Is the Fourth Industrial Revolution failing the middle class?
While technology enters its next golden age, the percentage of adults working or looking for work is the lowest in almost 40 years in countries such as the United States. Is the Fourth Industrial Revolution failing the middle class? Chosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor. Read the whole story at The Promise of Progress – World … Continue reading
Les TIC en Europe – 8 millions d’emplois en 2014
Dans l’Union européenne (UE), près de 8 millions de personnes étaient employées en 2014 comme spécialistes des technologies de l’information et de la communication (TIC), ce qui représente 3,7% de l’emploi total. Au cours des dernières années, tant le nombre des spécialistes des TIC que leur proportion dans le total de l’emploi n’ont cessé d’augmenter … Continue reading
Economic Immigration in Canada – The processing time is 67 months
In the economic class, if an application was filed between 2008 and 2010, the processing time is 67 months while for the ones filed between 2010 and 2014, is 13 months. Canada takes in about 260,000 immigrants each year in all categories, combined. The statistics were not available for last year, but in 2014, 66,661 … Continue reading
Skills Gap in US – More than 209,000 cybersecurity jobs unfilled
More than 209,000 cybersecurity jobs in the U.S. are unfilled, and postings are up 74% over the past five years, according to a 2015 analysis of numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics by Peninsula Press, a project of the Stanford University Journalism Program. A report from Cisco puts the global figure at one million … Continue reading
Youth Unemployment and the Skills Gap – Certainly it is a failure
Simon London: The sort of layperson’s view would be that this sounds like a sort of massive case of market failure. On the one hand, you’ve got a lot of idle resources—young people who want to work. And on the other hand, … you’ve got employers who are really struggling to attract and retain entry-level … Continue reading
NEETs – 10.2 million aged 16 to 29 in US, 13.4 million of the 15 to 29 in EU are neither working nor learning
In 2015, there were nearly 10.2 million NEETS ages 16 to 29 in the U.S., or 16.9% of that age bracket’s total population, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That represents a modest decline over recent years: In 2013, there were just over 11 million NEETs in the … Continue reading
Chicago – Nearly half of young black men out of work and out of school
Forty-seven percent of 20- to 24-year-old black men in Chicago, and 44 percent in Illinois, were out of school and out of work in 2014, compared with 20 percent of Hispanic men and 10 percent of white men in the same age group, according to the report from the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Great … Continue reading
Ontario pension plan benefits indexed to inflation: Wynne
It won’t be launched for another year, but details of the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan (ORPP) were unveiled Tuesday, and it includes benefits indexed to inflation. Last April, Ontario passed legislation to create a provincial pension for the more than 3.5 million people who do not have a workplace pension. The ORPP will be phased … Continue reading
Alberta – 19,600 Job losses last year
Alberta suffered its worst year for employment losses since the dark days of the National Energy Program and early 1980s recession, revised labour figures from Statistics Canada show. Statscan’s annual revisions of its national Labour Force Survey data ratcheted up Alberta’s job losses last year to 19,600, from the 14,600 the statistical agency originally reported … Continue reading
Johnson & Johnson – To Cut About 3,000 Jobs in Medical Devices
Johnson & Johnson said Tuesday that it plans to cut about 3,000 jobs over the next two years as the health care conglomerate works to restructure its medical devices business. The New Brunswick, New Jersey, company said that amounts to more than 2 percent of its global workforce of around 127,000 people and 4 percent … Continue reading
Resume (CV) – What’s really important
PageGroup surveyed 2,000 members of the public and 480 recruiters, and compared their opinions to find out what’s important on a CV. Use this interactive chart to see which aspects of your CV matter more than you think and which aren’t worth worrying about. (Click on the image) Click image to open interactive version (via … Continue reading
Inequality – Students in the most deprived schools are half as likely as those from more affluent schools to be entered triple science in UK
New Schools Network research has found that there is a worrying trend that excludes the poorest students from the most rigorous subjects at GCSE. ++ Schools in the least affluent areas account for only 85,000 entries for Biology, Chemistry and Physics GCSEs, compared to 160,000 from advantaged schools ++ Pupils in most deprived schools opting … Continue reading
Penguin Random House – No Need for a Degree for a Job
Penguin Random House UK announced this week that it would be removing all degree requirements from its job postings because, as the company put it, there’s “increasing evidence that there is no simple correlation” between having a piece of paper that says you went to class and performing well at your job. Penguin Random House hopes to … Continue reading
UK – A £1,000 charge to employers for every non-EU migrant worker the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) says
Companies which hire skilled workers from outside the European Union should face a £1,000 surcharge per head, the Government’s official immigration advisers have said. The Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) said that by increasing the cost of hiring from abroad, the new charge would encourage employers to invest in training British workers instead. The salary threshold … Continue reading
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